If
you lack adequate space for vegetable gardening or just want a fun
project for your children, potatoes in containers can be a
delightful and tasty prospect!

For this activity, you use a
conventional waste can or container such as you keep your trash in but
in this instance, it holds your growing potatoes!

All you need is a space large enough to hold the potato bin, seed potatoes, and newspaper or straw.

An added bonus with this type planting is you can purchase a container on wheels and move it around as needed.

For centuries, the potato was considered unsuitable for general consumption throughout Europe.

The Spanish, who are thought to have brought the vegetable over from South America only served the spud to their slaves.

The
English later introduced potatoes as a staple food for the Irish, while
the preferred to eat parsnips with their roast beef back in England.

The
Germans fed taters to their animals and prisoners. Part of the potato's
lowly image lay in the fact that like the tomato, it is a member of the
nightshade family and its leaves bear a striking resemblance to those
of its poisonous cousins. Some people even thought the potato caused
leprosy because of its lumpy, pock-marked appearance!